Gerard Malanga

Acting

Gerard Malanga

Born 1946-03-20 · The Bronx, New York, USA

Gerard Malanga is an American poet, photographer, filmmaker, curator, and archivist, best known for his collaborations with Andy Warhol. Malanga worked closely with Warhol from 1963 to 1970, during which time he was involved in all phases of Warhol’s creative output in silkscreen painting and filmmaking.

Acting credits

Factory Girl poster
6.0

In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a charismatic musician, who pushes her to seek independence from the artist and the milieu.

Factory Girl

2006

Dillinger Is Dead poster
7.1

A man decides to cook for himself and finds a revolver (which may have belonged to John Dillinger) hidden in his kitchen.

Dillinger Is Dead

1969

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections poster
6.6

Jonas Mekas’s intimate diary film spans 1963 to 1990, capturing Andy Warhol alongside friends and collaborators from the New York avant-garde. Featuring figures such as Allen Ginsberg, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and George Maciunas—as well as rare footage of the Velvet Underground’s first performance—it offers a personal portrait of Warhol’s world and his intersections with art, music, and counterculture.

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections

1990

Cleopatra poster
5.0

Cleopatra situates itself in the same relationship to Hollywood as the Warhol/Morrisey films of the period. It corresponds to Joseph Mankiewicz's 1963 Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton which Auder's cast watched and used as the starting point for scene by scene improvisation Auder drew his cast from Warhol's ensemble – including not only Viva and Louis Waldon, but also Taylor Mead, Ondine, Andrea Feldman, Gerard Melanga and others.

Cleopatra

1970

Paranoia poster
NR

On the evening of November 8th, 1966, following the afternoon filming of The George Hamilton Story, a movie in which Warhol cast his mother Julia as an “aging peroxide movie star with a lot of husbands”, – “ We’re trying to bring back old people.” – he took his crew and a much larger cast to Kaleidoscope, fashion designer Tiger Morse’s boutique shop on Madison Avenue in New York City, to shoot his second unreleased film of the day. A nocturnal tale of downtown bulls in an uptown China shop, Paranoia is a portrait of the always captivating, always hilarious Morse as she converses with everyone in front of and behind the camera while genuinely attempting to keep the Superstars in the room from wreaking havoc on her uniquely curated curios.

Paranoia

1966

No artwork available
NR

The story of two men (Ed Hood, Patrick Fleming ) in bed whose assignation gets interrupted by friends and neighbours. Hood tries to maintain control of Fleming, as well as the situation, while everyone talks, drinks, smokes, and wrestles on his bed. Double-screen projection runs at 66 minutes.

The John

1966

Andy Warhol, Fluorescent poster
5.0

A documentary on the legendary creator and victim of pop art. Warhol, revolutionary and controversial, was never afraid to break the mold and reshape the reals of art, advertising, and directing. But who was the real man being behind the colors in which he hid?

Andy Warhol, Fluorescent

2016

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol poster
7.3

Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture. The film provides details about Warhol's upbringing in Pittsburgh and follows his move to New York City, where he found massive success turning pop imagery into art and eventually founded "The Factory," his famed studio and party venue. Among the many notables interviewed are Dennis Hopper, David Hockney, and Roy Lichtenstein.

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

1990

Kiss poster
4.7

An hour-long paean to the art of the kiss featuring fourteen couples, from passionate participants to lethargic lovers, engaging in the intimate act.

Kiss

1963

Beautiful Darling poster
6.3

James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival photos and footage, and extracts from Darling's movies.

Beautiful Darling

2010

Match Girl poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Match Girl

1966

Otonal poster
NR

According to Hesiod, autumn begins when the Pleiades, the daughters of Atlas, rise. It is generally said that autumn is the most beautiful of the seasons, for the spectacle that nature offers but also because it is the time of the harvest and the grape harvest: "the march of Bacchus and his procession" wrote Lucretius.

Otonal

2021

Batman Dracula poster
4.6

Batman Dracula is a 1964 black and white American film produced and directed by Andy Warhol, without the permission of DC Comics. The film was screened only at Warhol's art exhibits. A fan of the Batman series, Warhol made the movie as a homage. Batman Dracula is considered to be the first film featuring a blatantly campy Batman. The film was thought to have been lost until scenes from it were shown at some length in the documentary Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis.

Batman Dracula

1964

Chelsea Girls poster
5.5

Follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City.

Chelsea Girls

1966

It Came from Kuchar poster
7.3

It Came from Kuchar is the definitive, feature documentary about the legendary, underground filmmaking twins, the Kuchar brothers. George and Mike Kuchar have inspired two generations of filmmakers, actors, musicians, and artists with their zany, "no budget" films and with their uniquely enchanting spirits.

It Came from Kuchar

2009

Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground poster
NR

The 29-minute experimental film Christmas on Earth caused a sensation when it first screened in New York City in 1964. Its orgy scenes, double projections and overlapping images shattered artistic conventions and announced a powerful new voice in the city's underground film scene. All the more remarkable, that vision belonged to a teenager, 18-year-old Barbara Rubin. A Zelig of the '60s, she introduced Andy Warhol to the Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan to Kabbalah and bewitched Allen Ginsberg. The same unbridled creativity that inspired her to make films when women simply didn't, saw her breach yet another male domain, Orthodox Judaism, before her mysterious death at 35. Lifelong friend Jonas Mekas saved all her letters, creating a rich archive that filmmaker Chuck Smith carefully sculpts into this fascinating portrait of a nearly forgotten artist. An avante-garde maverick, a rebel in a man's world, Barbara Rubin regains her rightful place in film history.

Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground

2018

Mary Woronov: Cult Queen poster
NR

The documentary explores the enigma of actress and artist Mary Woronov and chronicles her colorful career trajectory as a ground breaking female performer starting from her work with Andy Warhol to Roger Corman, that sealed her reputation as a "Cult Queen".

Mary Woronov: Cult Queen

Bitch poster
8.0

“Andy Warhol called Marie Menken and Willard Maas ‘the last of the great bohemians,’ and, in 1965, made Bitch, his real-life parody of Edward Albee’s play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, with Willard and Marie sitting on the couch in their living room, drunk and arguing on a Sunday afternoon. Unscripted, shot with a stationary camera in his signature home-movie documentary style, Warhol’s Bitch has never before been seen by the public—until now…” (Philip Gefter).

Bitch

1965

Excavating Taylor Mead poster
7.0

The film icon/Andy Warhol darling is interviewed is his legendary cluttered apartment.

Excavating Taylor Mead

2005

Andy at Work poster
NR

Andy Warhol at the Village Gate, June 7, 1966. Andy videotaping John Kennedy Jr. and Anthony Radziwill at Andy's estate, 1971, in Montauk, Long Island. Andy at work in his studio, 1976, Union Square, New York. Lee Radziwill, Peter Beard, Gerard Malanga, Peter Orlovsky, Ed Sanders, and Ronna Page are also pictured.

Andy at Work

2006

Andy Warhol Screen Tests poster
8.0

The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

1965

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible poster
6.0

A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of the most important creators of the 20th century, revolutionary of arts, aesthetics and pop culture.

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible

2020

Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks poster
NR

This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage and film portraits providing candid and interesting glimpses of Bob Dylan, Salvador Dalí, Jane Fonda and The Velvet Underground among other 1960s icons and featuring original music by Angus MacLise, who was the first drummer to perform with The Velvet Underground.

Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks

1970

No artwork available
NR

Shot at The Scene, located at 301 West 46th Street in New York, the film is a frenetically edited look at people dancing in the subterranean space of the midtown club. Showcasing the outrageous moves of several anonymous performers as well as some Factory regulars.

Discotheque

1965

Behind the camera

Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks poster
NR

This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage and film portraits providing candid and interesting glimpses of Bob Dylan, Salvador Dalí, Jane Fonda and The Velvet Underground among other 1960s icons and featuring original music by Angus MacLise, who was the first drummer to perform with The Velvet Underground.

Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks

1970

Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks poster
NR

This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage and film portraits providing candid and interesting glimpses of Bob Dylan, Salvador Dalí, Jane Fonda and The Velvet Underground among other 1960s icons and featuring original music by Angus MacLise, who was the first drummer to perform with The Velvet Underground.

Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks

1970

No artwork available
NR

Split screen, two-projector stereo sound film documenting the filmmaker's friends and extended family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as they perform their lives for the camera

Preraphaelite Dream

1968

Mary for Mary poster
NR

Shot in black and white by the Warholian Factory "icon" Gerard Malanga, American actress, author and figurative painter Mary Woronov confronts the camera with a whip.

Mary for Mary

1966

Andy Warhol : Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man poster
NR

One of the most important films in Malanga's body of work is his series of movie portraits of Andy Warhol from 1964-65. Comprised of seven individual 3-minute reels, Andy Warhol: Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man is the most intimate portrait of the artist ever captured to film. - The Waverly Press, Gerard Malanga's Secret Cinema

Andy Warhol : Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man

1965

In Search of the Miraculous poster
3.0

In the Search of the Miraculous is a multi-levelled story realized with extremely personal techniques and with the kind of atmosphere of Poetry and Introspection, only a poet could create. It is, in fact, the story of a poet searching himself through his love for a girl, and of the girl searching for her father. Obsequious to the iron rules of the avant-garde, the film has neither a beginning nor an ending it is a series of moods, it is a search which is at the same time spiritual and concrete, it is a moment in the life of two people. (Donatella Manganotti)

In Search of the Miraculous

1967

In Search of the Miraculous poster
3.0

In the Search of the Miraculous is a multi-levelled story realized with extremely personal techniques and with the kind of atmosphere of Poetry and Introspection, only a poet could create. It is, in fact, the story of a poet searching himself through his love for a girl, and of the girl searching for her father. Obsequious to the iron rules of the avant-garde, the film has neither a beginning nor an ending it is a series of moods, it is a search which is at the same time spiritual and concrete, it is a moment in the life of two people. (Donatella Manganotti)

In Search of the Miraculous

1967

The Filmmaker Records a Portion of His Life in the Month of August poster
NR

THE FILMMAKER RECORDS A PORTION OF HIS LIFE IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST (1968), presents an intimate, autobiographical portrait of Malanga’s summer in 1968, capturing fleeting moments with Warhol and other New York artists.

The Filmmaker Records a Portion of His Life in the Month of August

1968

No artwork available
NR

A young woman named Phoebe Russell, is filmed wearing beads and a flowered dress; she gazes slightly cross-eyed at the camera, looking pretty but also increasingly melancholy as her eyes tear up. The Screen Test was one of the few shot by Gerard Malanga.

SCREEN TEST [ST288]: PHOEBE RUSSELL

1966